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    The comparativist account in P3 does not require a living... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It is impossible for an event that occurs after a person dies to be bad for her.

    The comparativist account in P3 does not require a living subject: one can coherently compare the world where the posthumous event occurs to the counterfactual where it does not.

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    • 1.Counterfactual comparisons don't require the subject's existence; we routinely compare actual and possible worlds in modal logic.
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    • 2.A person can be benefited or harmed by events after death if those events affect how their life is evaluated or remembered.
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    • 3.The coherence of a comparison depends only on logical intelligibility, not on whether the subject can experience the result.
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    • 1.Without a living subject present to be affected, posthumous events cannot constitute harm or benefit in any meaningful sense.
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    • 2.Comparativism requires an experiential or evaluative perspective; a dead person lacks the capacities needed to ground such comparisons.
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    • 3.Logical coherence of a comparison doesn't establish that the comparison is *relevant* to the subject's actual wellbeing.
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